What movie did Chu Yuan direct?

Chu Yuan, formerly known as Zhang Baojian, was born in Guangzhou in 1934 and studied in the chemistry department of Sun Yat-sen University for three years. His father Zhang Huoyou is a famous Cantonese opera and movie actor, and his wife Nan Hong is also a famous Cantonese movie star. 1956, under the influence of his father, Chu Yuan became interested in film production and devoted himself to the creation of Cantonese films under the pseudonym Qin Yu. 1958, he assisted the then famous director Jian Qin in filming Autumn in Wei Zi Garden. The first film directed by Chu Yuan was "The Valley of Acacia Bloody", but it is better known as "Lakeside Grass" directed by himself. Chu Yuan's famous work was first directed by The Heirs of Poverty in 1960.

By the end of 1960s, Cantonese movies began to decline. Chu Yuan directed more than 70 Cantonese movies and accumulated rich experience. 1970, Chu Yuan directed his first mandarin martial arts film "Long Muxiang" in Guotai Company, which has a romantic and aesthetic style and attracted people's attention. The Fire Merging (197 1) is Chu Yuan's first work after he joined Shaw, who provided him with excellent shooting conditions and made him famous. 1972, he made a fantasy martial arts film "Love Slave" (starring He Lili, Betty and Elliot Ngok), which was even more colorful, bizarre and unique in style. It is considered as one of Chu Yuan's best masterpieces and has been well received in Hongkong and Britain. The film is about a weak girl whose parents died and was sold to a brothel. After that, she retaliated with her beauty and strange martial arts, killing her enemies one by one, only to be killed by a dying madam because of her kindness. This ending is very in line with Chu Yuan's literature and art, which is the tragedy of love and hate.

1973, the revival of Cantonese movies in Hong Kong. Chu Yuan adapted the pre-war drama and made the Cantonese comedy Seventy-two Tenants, which satirized the society and set a new box office record for Hong Kong films. In the same year, he also filmed the literary film Dancing Clothes, which shows that Chu Yuan is obsessed with literary films and Cantonese films. This literary/romantic temperament finally made him hit it off with Gu Long's new martial arts novels. Gu Long's fantasy martial arts novels became the best choice for Chu Yuan. Since 1976 meteor butterfly sword, Chu Yuan and Gu Long have cooperated many times. It opened a new door for Chu Yuan films and the whole martial arts films. Since then, Chu Yuan has paid more attention to his exotic style, and consciously integrated aesthetic interest and literary atmosphere into it, gradually becoming a more grand and unified film style. At the same time, it also developed a martial arts route different from Zhang Che and Hu Jinquan. From 1976 to 1980, Chu Yuan * * * made 22 films, including "Love Boat" (1976) and "The Butterfly Fairy's Silver Bell" (1980), of which 20 were martial arts films. Among them, Bat Without Wings (1978) adapted from Jin Yong's novel and Wang Ying's original work (1980) are all adapted from Gu Long's novel. Chu Yuan's adaptation of Gu Long's novels is a new genre of grotesque martial arts films, which breaks the martial arts formula that does not emphasize the plot and the relationship between characters, and sets off a strange martial arts craze in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

In the short five years from 1976 to 198 1, Chu Yuan made more than 20 films, most of which were adapted from the works of Jin Yong and Gu Long, such as "The Dragon Slayer with Eternal Adversity" (the first two episodes), "The Sword" and "Chu Liuxiang". Later films such as Tianya Dao (1976) were more prominent in style and more mature in technology, which brought a new trend of "three-stage film" (referring to the film title being divided into three sections) to the film industry. However, Xiao Li's flying knife in The Ruthless Sword of an Affectionate swordsman (1977) has become a well-known martial arts hero, so that Wu Ma later filmed Xiao Li's flying knife (1979, produced by Tainan Qiang Company), and Chu Wan took the first movie "meteor butterfly sword" of flying knife (see also flying knife).

1979 directed Peacock Dynasty and won the Best Action Film Director Award at the 25th Asian Film Festival.

Chu Yuan is not only an outstanding director, but also an outstanding actor. Master of ceremonies ... rarely appears on the screen in Hong Kong, but he still works in front of Canadian TV stations.

In the17th Hong Kong Film Awards, Chu Yuan was awarded the "Professional Spirit Award".